The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has hailed as a “complete victory” a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. government’s watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists” violates the constitutional rights of Americans named on it.
Judge Anthony Trenga of the Eastern District of Virginia ruled Wednesday that the FBI-administered watchlist, formally known as the Terrorist Screening Database (TSDB), “fails to provide constitutionally sufficient procedural due process.”
He has yet to order any remedies, but called for additional legal briefs from the parties within 30 days on “the outstanding issues to be resolved in this matter.”
The case was brought with CAIR’s help on behalf of 23 American Muslims who, in

Requires appeal.
Does the FBI need to provide constitutionally sufficient procedural due process or is that just smoke?
Does being in a terrorist suspect database somehow impinge on the putative terrorists' first amendment rights?
Honestly would like to know. Clever approach by CAIR, hate to say.

I'm no fan of CIAR but this list has already been used in pseudo gun confiscation programs. It would have been the first used to confiscate guns if Red Laws are passed. Too many innocent people have been targeted using this law. I'm glad the goobernment has had its wings clipped on this one. Sometimes, we have to take the bad with expansion of our personal freedoms.

The Honorable Judge was appointed by George W. Bush, a republican president with a history of casual appointments to the judiciary. He sure picked some strange ones--especially the Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. Have to wonder how many more of his appointments turn out to be "progressives". Thankful that President Trump understands how important it is to make sure his selections start with proven conservative people.

What about the common criminal with many felony charges, no need to keep an eye on him? If I have a list of people I don't like, do I have to get rid of it? I have a neighbor, with previous criminal convictions, can I keep an eye on him and advise my other neighbors about him?

Once again, things that have not been an issue for years are suddenly unconstitutional issues now that Donald Trump is President. The fact that CAIR and members of the "squad" had a hand in this is not surprising.

Ive had a problem with the watch list since its inception. How are names added? Whats it take to get on the list? If your an American Citizen, what recourse do you have if placed on it?
By democrat standards, I am a walking talking potential terrorist/racist/white supremacist/nazi. If AOC had her way, anyone to the right of Lennin would be on the list.

My neighbor, E.Z. Ryder, fancies himself a farsighted entrepreneur and is always full of imaginative ideas. He was sitting on his front porch shuffling through a stack of blueprints as I pulled into my driveway. He waved and motioned me to join him, so I walked over.
“See these plans? This is my best idea ever -- an assisted suicide center for political consultants.”
“What? Why?”
“I got this idea during the last presidential campaign, and this article in the Atlantic confirmed it,” Ryder said. “Political consultants burn through billions of dollars and have no idea what they’re doing except to enrich themselves.

Congress reconvenes this week after a summer fraught with multiple mass shootings. Reportedly, legislation implementing tighter gun control is on the table, with rumored support by some in the White House. The rhetoric surrounding guns continues to escalate.
Here’s the thing about guns. The Constitution—that handy little document—guarantees our rights to them, and that guarantee is a profound reflection of the nature and character of our freedoms. As Ben Domenech of The Federalist wrote recently, “the right to bear arms is not about hunting.” Rather:
It is a natural right of the deepest significance to the relationship between the citizen and the state. It is in the Constitution

Sometimes Twitter isn’t enough. After spending years alleging anti-conservative bias on social media, President Donald Trump will soon have another way to get his message out how he wants. Trump’s reelection campaign plans to launch a new smartphone app this fall to encourage supporters to donate, volunteer and reel in like-minded voters — all while providing the president more unfiltered access to his followers. Supporters who download the all-in-one app are expected to be able to sign up for a Make America Great Again rally, canvas a neighborhood or call voters, maybe even register to vote as the campaign looks to turn passive supporters into activists

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President Donald Trump’s plan to force Mexico to stem the flow of migrants across the southwest border of the U.S. appears to be working.
Border arrests, a metric for illegal crossings, plummeted to 51,000 in August, according to preliminary government figures obtained by POLITICO Wednesday, down more than 60 percent since a peak in May. And border watchers say it’s largely because of an agreement Trump struck with Mexico in June. Mexican authorities, backed by the newly formed National Guard, are now cracking down on migrants traversing Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala, monitoring river crossings and stopping buses carrying migrants from Central America through Mexico.

Democrats say they’re no longer willing to throw cash to President Donald Trump for his border demands.
But they still can’t escape making a deal with Trump — a scenario that could divide the caucus over exactly how far to take their fight against the president.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) are preparing to rebuff Trump’s requests for additional wall money this month as payback for Trump’s summer of hard-line immigration moves — a position that’s in contrast to the billions of dollars that Democrats have handed over for border fencing and security since the start of Trump’s term, according to

Smaller form factor. Better battery life. And more secure privacy controls.
Those are some of the highlights of your responses to our question – what new features do you want to see in the next iPhone?
Apple will unveil its 2019-2020 lineup Tuesday at a press event at its campus in Cupertino, with models that aren't expected to be radically designed. Here's what some iPhone customers would love to see:
—"Longer battery life, smaller models (it used to fit in my pocket – those days long over), less expensive models, more easily accessed privacy widget so you can switch off all microphone and camera access on

For an official in the Trump administration, Kevin Hassett had a long tenure: A well-known GOP economist and former scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, he spent roughly two years as the chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, or CEA, which counsels the West Wing. Hassett is a free-trade devotee, but one who managed to stay on President Donald Trump’s good side, even as he escalated his trade war with China and tore up trade agreements. When Hassett announced his departure in June, Trump tweeted that he was a “true friend.”
In many ways, it was an auspicious time to leave. Since Hassett’s departure, things have been bumpy

Political activist Linda Sarsour energized a Brooklyn rally for Sanders and endorsed his 'foreign policy that sees Palestinians as human beings deserving of human rights and self-determination' Political activist Linda Sarsour was promoted by the Bernie Sanders’ 2020 presidential campaign as a surrogate over the weekend in a tweet where she is seen energizing a crowd in Brooklyn, New York with an enthusiastic endorsement of the Vermont senator. The Women’s March co-founder was speaking last week at a Sanders rally where told the crowd “I would be so proud to ... elect the first Jewish American president this country has ever seen and for his name to be Bernard Sanders."

Bill Maher addressed the obesity epidemic in a monologue he delivered Friday night at the end of his program 'Real Time' on HBO. Maher criticized the culture that protects people from judging others, especially when it comes to "fat-shaming."
Maher said fat-shaming doesn't need to end, it needs to make a comeback. The comedian said shaming and judging are necessary and the first step in reform.
"I know this is a controversial thing to say now in today's America but being fat is a bad thing," Maher said. "We shouldn't taunt people about it. And overeating shouldn't be singled out as the only vice. It isn't. We all have something.

Pete Buttigieg, like Elwood Blues, is on a mission from God — or so he seems to think. Penguins beware.
Buttigieg has managed to make an impression on the impressionable by insisting that God must surely regard air pollution as, in the idiotic idiom of the time, “messed up.” The sin of presumption apparently has been omitted from Mayor Pete’s negligent Episcopalian Sunday school curriculum.
It is remarkable how far this meretricious kind of thing goes with the mush-brained partisans who dominate our political discourse in anno Domini 2019. Christian conservatives were writing about the moral relevance of environmental attitudes as early as the 1930s: T. S. Eliot, noting

Clashes took place in the heart of Hong Kong Sunday as thousands of protesters marched on the U.S. consulate, calling for Washington’s help in their struggle for greater political freedom.
What began as as peaceful demonstration was cut short in the late afternoon as hardliners started fires and began erecting barricades on some of the city’s most prestigious streets, including Chater Road—location of the Court of Final Appeal, Cenotaph, and the ultra-exclusive Hong Kong Club. They also smashed entrances to Central subway station, which serves the financial district and is one of Hong Kong’s most important transport hubs. The station was quickly closed down as scuffles took

The president of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, argued in favor of safe spaces in a recent op-ed, suggesting that they “promote intellectual diversity” and remove “the threat of harassment or intimidation.” Campus climates across the country after the spread of safe spaces, however, have shown an increase in sensitivity, hostility, and Groupthink among students, leaving conservative students to bear the brunt of “safe space policies.”
Wesleyan University President Michael S. Roth defended college “safe spaces” in a recent New York Times op-ed, arguing that while the concept of a safe space can be taken too far, “it still underlies the university’s primary obligations,” and that schools

Friday on MSNBC’s All In, March for Our Lives co-founder David Hogg discussed what he believed was the origin of mass shootings in the United States.Hogg said, “I think it comes down to reckoning with our history and our history of white supremacy in the United States. The fact that we live in a post-genocidal society oftentimes that was orchestrated by the United States government in that if we want to talk about mass shootings, we need to recognize the massive number of indigenous mass shootings that was conducted by the United States government. I think back to the battle of Wounded-Knee and the several hundred Native Americans, predominately

Donald Trump wants people to think he’s a winner. So why does he act like a loser?
Winners convey a sense of effortless superiority. They don’t have to work at it. You just know they’re above it all. If someone tries to criticize them, it’s beneath their dignity to worry about it. It’s just a little speck they brush off their shoulder.
The Brits are good at that, Boris Johnson especially. We still don’t know how things will turn out there, but I expect his aplomb will carry him through. “There are no disasters,” he once joked. “Only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters.”

A behavioral scientist from Sweden named Magnus Soderlund argued in a recent presentation that the way to combat climate change, save the planet and secure the earth for scores of upcoming generations is to — get this — eat people.
As far as far-left ideas go, this one about cannibalism and climate change just takes the cake. Talk about the eww factor.
This guy’s whacked. That’s all there is to it.
Soderland, a behavioral scientist and marketing strategist, brought forth the idea in a talk bluntly titled, “Can you Imagine Eating Human Flesh?”
Umm, no. Not without gagging, that is.

The Duchess of Sussex is said to have told her new PR company that she wants to 'break the internet'.
Meghan Markle reportedly made the statement during a meeting with the company, Sunshine Sachs.
This comes amid claims from royal sources that the former actress and mother-of-one is 'more concerned about the U.S media than the British.' Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have embarked on a number of projects, seemingly away from the traditional Royal route, including Meghan's guest editorial at the UK version of Vogue magazine.
Now senior sources have reportedly said she is looking to create a team which isn't 'bogged down' by tradition.

The Seattle Times reports that Seattle's city council is considering legislation which would ban all new homes and buildings within city limits from using natural gas, and mandating that these edifices must use electric heating and cooking. Councilmember Mike O’Brien will likely introduce the legislation next week. If passed, it is expected that the regulations will go in effect next summer. "We know that some people rely on natural gas at home and on the natural-gas industry for jobs, so we want to be thoughtful about how we transition," O'Brien said. "But in the meantime, let’s not continue to make

It’s a cult. Democrat Joe Biden stumped in New Hampshire: “I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuel.” (Photo) he liberal audience clapped like monkeys. As Zach Parkinson reported 80 percent of the households in the Granite State are heated by oil, gas, and propane. The others are burning something else. Greenpeace co-founder Patrick Moore says a plan like the one Joe is promoting will kill off half the US population in the first winter.

Nearly 15 percent of American teenagers experienced major depression in 2018, new data show.This figure represents a sharp increase from just six years ago, with adolescent girls in particular seeing a substantial jump in their reported rates of depression. The report reflects yet another frightening indicator of America's teen mental health crisis.The new data were released as part of the 2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, an annual survey of teens aged 12 to 17, as well as adults. Survey proctors ask teens a battery of questions about depression

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., claimed Saturday that she didn't hear an audience member at a New Hampshire town hall Friday call President Trump "mentally retarded" and apologized for laughing after the comment. "When my staff played the video from my town hall yesterday, it was upsetting," Harris tweeted on Saturday. "I didn’t hear the words the man used in that moment, but if I had I would’ve stopped and corrected him. I’m sorry. That word and others like it aren’t acceptable. Ever." (Tweet)

Steve Harrigan reports from Abaco Island in the Bahamas as search and rescue efforts continue. The scale of the devastation is incredible; everything is gone, and worse yet the topography has changed removing the ability of deep water ports to be used in/around most of the northern Bahama islands. The anticipated death toll is expected to be dramatic.
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The equipment needed, and the fuel to make the equipment operational, is not able to reach the Islands because the underwater topography has changed. Deep water channels and port routes need to be remapped. Most previous ports in/around the Northern Bahamas are no longer feasible for use.

In the spirit of generosity and charity, when I clicked on the YouTube video of Pete Buttigieg's interview on MSNBC, I set aside the fact that the 2020 Democrat presidential hopeful is violating God's law concerning sexual ethics to hear what South Bend, Indiana's mayor believes about Christianity. Maybe, just maybe, I thought, he'll express an understanding of his faith that aligns with the Bible. Turns out, my hope was misplaced. Pete Buttigieg either doesn't understand Christianity or is afraid to talk about it on national TV.
During an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe, after Joe Scarborough talked about how President Obama claims

The steady stream of customers walking into Di Palo's on a recent afternoon were greeted by giant cheese wheels, meat hanging from the ceiling and bottles of olive oil lined up on the shelves -- a century-old array that's at risk because of President Donald Trump's trade wars.
Most of the products sold at the 109-year-old specialty shop in Manhattan's Little Italy neighborhood are from the old country, and attract customers from all over. The store has lasted through two world wars and the Great Depression. But because of a Trump administration fight with the European Union, Di Palo's

I can’t believe we’re still doing this in September 2019, nearly a year after her defeat by Brian Kemp, following numerous critiques of her claim, and months after Abrams herself stopped insisting that she won. “I have no empirical evidence that I would have achieved a higher number of votes” if everyone whom she believes should have been allowed to vote had done so, she told the NYT in April. She was questioning the basic fairness of the election, she stressed, not necessarily the outcome. So why are Democratic presidential candidates still not only questioning the outcome but insisting forthrightly that she won?